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An audio description by Soso Ní Cheallaigh “De mo neamhthoil a thánaig an crith orm” “How does it feel to never truly be still?” Part of Bounce Festival 2024 at CCA Derry~Londonderry on 5 October 2024 where Soso performed in CCA's Project Space amidst their installation. Responding to the essential tremor and involuntary contractions that convulse through their own body, this work is part of Soso Ní Cheallaigh's ongoing study on the chaos and disorder of their rare nervous system conditions. This new site specific work combines video installation with live intervention to explore self-documentation, bodily isolation, and our inherent human need to understand ourselves. De mo neamhthoil was supported in part by the European Dancehouse Network Carte Blanche Travel Award. Proud part of the Bounce Arts Festival 2024. About Soso Ní Cheallaigh Soso Ní Cheallaigh (they/them) is a disability-led multidisciplinary maker from Derry. Their work spans poetry, essay, theatre, visual art, and film through both the English and Irish language. Recent credits include Burkitt (TG4/Little Ease Films), A Midsummer Night's Dream (Lyric Theatre), and SHIFT (DU Dance & Southpaw Dance Company). A graduate of Seamus Heaney Centre and Inclusive Dance Cork, Soso was a previous recipient of University of Atypical's DDASF award, Arts Council of Northern Ireland funding, and a Theatre and Dance NI INVEST artist for 2024.ohbysoso.com About Bounce Festival Bounce Arts Festival 4–6 October 2024 - This is a festival created by and for disabled, d/Deaf and neurodivergent people through the University of Atypical. This year it is taking place over three days in Belfast, Derry~Londonderry and Limavady. Transcending barriers, celebrating ability and disability; disturbing myths and illuminating the creative practice of disabled artists on a professional platform: Bounce is our showcase where every aspect of diverse identity is celebrated. All are welcome.universityofatypical.org/bounce Supported by Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Derry City & Strabane District Council, University of ATypical, European Dancehouse Network Carte Blanche Travel Award.

Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro has turned his attention to the incredible story behind the Federal Theatre in 1930s America in his new study “The Playbook: A Story of Theatre, Democracy and the Making of A Culture War”. He discusses the groundbreaking performances staged by its 12,000 employees, including Orson Welles' all-Black production of Macbeth, and the extraordinary woman who ran it, Hallie Flanagan.BEKA is a singer-songwriter who's gone from singing backing vocals with Honne to featuring with them as a performer, and supporting Laura Mvula and Griff. She has cowritten a soundtrack album for the Apple TV series Trying and joins us to play a track and talk about writing for herself and for TV.The YES Festival which runs from 13th to 16th June in Derry/Londonderry and Donegal focuses on Molly Bloom, the fictional character who appears in James Joyce's novel Ulysses. This culmination of the two-year-long Ulysses European Odyssey uses Molly as a springboard for a celebration of female power and creativity - the first all-women multi-arts festival on the island of Ireland. Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe Producer: Torquil MacLeod

Niamh Seana Meehan Dreamers, 2024 Audio Recording, 8 mins 10 sec Part of the Northern Ireland Mental Health Arts Festival 2024 and National Drawing Day 2024. This year CCA invites artist Niamh Seana Meehan to design an activity for NIMHAF 10–19 May 2024 and National Drawing Day 18 May 2024. In Dreamers Niamh invites you to listen, float, and linger with an audio coastal walk. Walking along edges of liquid space this audio will explore moments to find stillness, to feel how our skin touches seawater and how we can reimagine the desire path. A desire path is a path created by animal traffic, or a path taken as a short-cut. For this coastal walk the desire path will present listeners with the space to reimagine what they desire to find on their own coastal path. Listen to the audio, pausing to draw or write anything that comes to mind. Alternatively you can listen to the full audio, then begin to draw what you feel, think or imagined as you were listening. You are also welcome to sit comfortably and listen to the audio. Suggested materials are pens, pencils, colouring pencils or whatever you have to hand or prefer to draw with. You can collect materials from CCA, 10-12 Artillery Street, Derry~Londonderry, BT48 6RG from 10 May 2024. You can download or listen online to this specially created audio with intentional pauses to give you space to reflect, draw or write. Headphones are preferred. You can tag your drawings with @CCADLD, @nimhaf, #NationalDrawingDay Read more about the work at: ccadld.org/public-programme/dreamers-an-activity-for-nimhaf-and-national-drawing-day And visit the artist's instagram at: @niamhseanameehan This project was supported by: CCA Derry~Londonderry Arts Council England Arts Council of Northern Ireland Derry City & Strabane District Council Northern Ireland Mental Health Festival

The British Army Murdered 13 People, No One Was Prosecuted On January 30th, 1972, the British army shot and killed 13 people in the city of Derry/Londonderry. The soldiers had fired into a crowd of civil rights protestors, and yet somehow, no one was prosecuted. So how did the British government conspire to cover up the events, to protect themselves and their soldiers? What is the true story of Bloody Sunday? -Chapters- 0:00 Intro 4:01 Two Irelands 9:26 Massacre in Derry/Londonderry 12:52 The Coverup 16:11 The Fallout and a New Investigation 18:51 Conclusion Disclaimer: This show isn't meant to impersonate Johnny Harris. All Content Rights Belong To Johnny Harris. In case of any concerns email 8datasets@gmail.com

Hugh (on his own this time) headed up the road to Derry/Londonderry to speak with Eavan King, Film Programmes Manager at Nerve Centre and Christopher Morrison, Programmer of Foyle Film Festival. We talked about the cinema heritage of the Nerve Centre, the creation of Foyle Film Festival in 1987 and the place of film in the creative landscape of the North West.  Today, 10th April 2024, marks the start of Foyle's spring festival Reel Lives Festival and Christopher and Eavan gave us a great run down of what people can expect from the exciting, innovative programme on offer. For more details on Foyle Film Festival, click here. Support the showSupported by National Lottery funds, Film Hub NI was established in 2013 by Queen's Film Theatre, Belfast in their capacity as NI's BFI Film Hub Lead Organisation (FHLO). FHNI works to support the creativity and energy of the film exhibition sector across NI and ensure a wide range of film is available to audiences right across the country.The BFI Film Audience Network (FAN) is made up of 8 Film Hubs which cover the whole of the UK. Each Film Hub is led by a Film Hub Lead Organisation (FHLO) that receives funding from the BFI to deliver extensive programming, audience development activity and support sector training in their region. Click here for more information on the scope of work carried out across the FAN.

Welcome to our latest Round Table from CCA Derry~Londonderry. We bring together artists to talk about their work and experiences. Sound and Vision connects this episode's speakers: Peter Glasgow, Susan Hughes and Ryan Vail. Recorded during Susan Hughes' solo show, 'Stones From a Gentle Place' at CCA, each artists' practice spans music and visual art. Susan is a fiddle player using music to barter for stories, Peter experiments with slide guitar and participated in CCA's Digital Residency 'The Honkey Tonks and Me⁠' in Autumn 2023, and Ryan Vail won the NI Music Award for Best Album with Elma Orkestra in 2019 as well as working with Visual Spectrum Studios creating audio-visual installations. You can find out more about CCA at ⁠⁠CCADLD.org⁠⁠. Peter Glasgow peterglasgow.co.uk | @peterglasgow Susan Hughes cargocollective.com/susanhughesartist | @susandorothyhughes Ryan Vail @ryanvail | @visualspectrumstudio With thanks to: CCA Derry~Londonderry Art Fund Arts Council of Northern Ireland Derry City & Strabane District Council

Derry has been campaigning for a full sized university campus for the last 60 years. The city still holds a grievance over the Lockwood report from 1965, which chose Coleraine for the location of the new university, rather than Derry's existing Magee College, then a Presbyterian theological college.I once interviewed Sir Kenneth Bloomfield, the former head of the Northern Ireland Civil Service, who told me that some of the unionist politicians of the time wanted to close Magee completely, but he persuaded them not to.That context continues to influence how the university debate is seen in Derry, where student numbers today are around 5,500, rising in the near term to 6,500. While this is progress, it is still a long way short of the 10,000 aspiration specified in Derry's regeneration plan, and which the former University for Derry group (which I co-ordinated) aspired to. It is even further behind the 20,000 student number that John Daly – economist for Ireland's Northern and Western Regional Assembly – reports would be consistent with those of other Irish cities of similar size. John is one of the interviewees in the latest Holywell Conversations podcast, where he discusses how a larger university campus would benefit Derry and the wider North West region.But the problem is not only that Derry has too few university students, it is that Northern Ireland also has too few. There are slightly under 70,000 higher education students, spread across Ulster, Queen's, the further education colleges and the two teacher training university colleges of Stranmillis and St Mary's. Of these 70, 000 students, 71% are from NI, 4% from GB, 3% from RoI, and 21% are non-EU international students, paying higher fees.Wales has more than twice the number of students; Scotland has more than four times; while England has over 2.3 million HE students. England's population is 30 times the size of Northern Ireland's, so our student population should be about 7,000 greater if it was equivalent to that of England. If it was equivalent to Scotland, we would have nearer to 100,000. One factor is that Northern Ireland, unlike England, subsidises tuition fees for local students, which in turn limits the number of local students. That is what is called the MaSN cap, or maximum student number.The Irish Republic has over 250,000 higher education students. So the Republic has slightly fewer university students than Scotland, in keeping with having a smaller population.Investments from Ireland are going into Derry's campus. The Irish government has provided €44.5m of capital to improve teaching facilities, which will reportedly enable an additional 1,800 students at the Derry campus. Ireland has also provided €10m to support 250 student nursing and midwifery places, of which 200 will be students from the South and 50 from the North. These numbers are split between Queen's and Ulster's Derry campus. Ireland is also subsidising Irish students at Derry's medical school, training a new generation of doctors.As well as this, Ireland's Shared Island Fund has commissioned the Royal Irish Academy to undertake a study into higher education provision in the cross-border North West region. Our latest podcast interviews Gerry McKenna of the Academy to hear what the findings are likely to be. Considerations include whether there should be an additional cross-border body overseeing higher education on the island.Ulster University provided a statement to us saying it “remains completely committed to growth at our campus in Derry~Londonderry,” adding that “substantial levels of investment, including from the University's own reserves and surpluses, will be made into the campus in coming years. There are more students on our campus in Derry~Londonderry than ever before and we will continue to expand student numbers so as to, with our partners, continue to grow our already very significant contribution to economic and social impact in the whole of the northwest of the island.”There is a lobby group, the Derry University Group, that is arguing for the creation of a new independent university in Derry. While they were invited to participate in the podcast, they declined to do so. This podcast, and previous editions of the Holywell Conversations, can be listened to at the Holywell Trust website.  Disclaimer: This project has received support from the Northern Ireland Community Relations Council which aims to promote a pluralist society characterised by equity, respect for diversity, and recognition of interdependence. The views expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the Community Relations Council. 

Derry/Londonderry has a conflicted past but is fiercely loved and celebrated by its inhabitants. In the 21st century, it's shaping a new identity and redefining itself. The success of the hit TV sitcom 'Derry Girls' has breathed new life into the civic vision of the city and its surrounding landscape, shining a global spotlight on a place so often defined only by its troubled history. Marie-Louise Muir is native to the city and has resettled there after years of living away. In this programme, she discovers the new atmosphere of pride which is emerging and explores the new narrative of the city and its surroundings. Produced by Ruth Sanderson

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Fulton is joined by comic book writer and producer Danny McLaughlin of RevolveComics in Derry/Londonderry, Northern Ireland. McLaughlin describes his innovative storytelling process, including how he uses history and art to produce creative works for education and socially-beneficial causes. Recorded in three parts. Original music by Felix Halvorson. To learn more, visit https://innovativehistory.org/

 Fulton is joined by comic book writer and producer Danny McLaughlin of RevolveComics in Derry/Londonderry, Northern Ireland. McLaughlin describes his innovative storytelling process, including how he uses history and art to produce creative works for education and socially-beneficial causes. Recorded in three parts. Original music by Felix Halvorson. To learn more, visit https://innovativehistory.org/

 Fulton is joined by comic book writer and producer Danny McLaughlin of RevolveComics in Derry/Londonderry, Northern Ireland. McLaughlin describes his innovative storytelling process, including how he uses history and art to produce creative works for education and socially-beneficial causes. Recorded in three parts. Original music by Felix Halvorson. To learn more, visit https://innovativehistory.org/

Welcome to our latest Round Table from CCA Derry~Londonderry. We bring together artists to talk about their work and experiences. Episode 9 welcomes SEAMS artist Laura Wilson who talks with writer Kerrí Ní Dochartaigh and weaver Claire Whelan about linen, family, history, motherhood, nature and the colour indigo amongst other topics. You can find out more about SEAMS at ⁠CCADLD.org⁠. Laura Wilson laurawilson.me | @wilsonlaurawilson Kerrí Ní Dochartaigh @kerrinidochartaigh Claire Whelan @whelansweaving With thanks to: CCA Derry~Londonderry Art Fund Arts Council of Northern Ireland Derry City & Strabane District Council

  Kim took a last minute spring break trip to Ireland and Northern Ireland with her younger daughter and this week on the podcast, she tells us all about it! She flew into Dublin and then stay at a country estate hotel in Northern Ireland before visiting Belfast, the Causeway Coast, Derry/Londonderry, and Galway before looping back to Dublin. See Kim's articles on: Ireland travel tips Ireland packing list 2 Days in Dublin Ireland Trip Highlights: Killeavy Estate in Northern Ireland Belfast - Titanic Belfast and city architecture Causeway Coast - Carrick-a-Rede bridge, Giant's Causeway, Dunluce Castle Bishop's Gate Hotel in Derry - walk the walls around the city Galway - Kim didn't love Galway and her stay at the G Hotel because it felt more like a conference center hotel then something great for families. It was also a long walk into the center city. (see where Tamara stayed at a bed and breakfast near Galway) Kylemore Abbey in Connemara & Cliffs of Moher Clontarf Castle Hotel in Dublin suburbs Malahide Dublin - Trinity City Hotel and Trinity College / Book of Kells, shopping for Aran Sweaters

This week is a very inspiring and shocking interview with Journalist Leona O'Neill who has reported for the news in Northern Ireland for over 24 years. She explains the privilege that this is but also the dark side of how she has been harassed, threatened and how she experienced PTSD after witnessing the murder of fellow reporter Lyra McKee at a riot in 2019.TOPICS INCLUDE:Journalism and the transitional time for Northern Ireland around the Good Friday AgreementWitnessing so much tragedy, murder, crime etc from the age of 20 years old. Both the fear and excitement of thisHer love for civil rights and being privileged to watch history unfold and to help capture itThe importance of gathering facts, as well as the stories from different voices/backgrounds and reporting impartially on theseBeing strong in yourself and not being swayed by the opinions of othersGetting death threats from Justin Beiber fans! The night that Lyra McKee was murdered and the PTSD that followedDealing with death threats, harassment and being scared in her own homeUnderstanding emotional triggers and her own trauma responsesThe importance of therapy and daily self care in healing traumaHer courage to share her story as well as capturing the story of other journalists in her book in the hope of shedding a light on mental health awareness and the support required for journalists moving forwardGet a copy of the book here: Breaking: Trauma in the News Roomhttps://www.amazon.co.uk/Breaking-Trauma-Newsroom-Chris-Lindsay-ebook/dp/B0BDY1F4H6/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1T0VCUOD4F8HG&keywords=book+breaking+trauma+in+the+newsroom&qid=1679927899&sprefix=book+breaking+trauma+in+teh+newroom%2Caps%2C132&sr=8-1Connect with Leona:https://twitter.com/LeonaONeill1Bio:Leona O'Neill is the head of Undergraduate Journalism at Ulster University. Before that she was a journalist for 24 years. She has been a news reporter for the Belfast Telegraph and others across Northern Ireland, a broadcast journalist, and a magazine editor. She writes a weekly column in the Irish News and is Northern Ireland Field Producer for Vice News, Al Jazeera, CBC News, ABC Australia and PBS Newshour. In 2019 she was beside journalist Lyra McKee when she was shot dead at a riot in Derry-Londonderry, an incident that traumatised her, leaving her with PTSD. In 2022 she published a book Breaking: Trauma in the Newsroom with the BBC's Chris Lindsay that gathered stories from journalists who broke the news and the news broke them. She is an avid campaigner for journalism safety and better mental health in newsrooms, is. Ted speaker and regularly talks on the issue in conferences across the world. Amanda's new course - 8 week online 'Building Confidence and Self Esteem CourseStarting Thurs 27th April at 7.30pm on ZoomBook NOW! (Limited Spaces)Book this week for a 20% discount - it's only £266 until the price rises on 1st April.https://www.eventbrite.com/manage/events/591682888447/tickets**********To BOOK Amanda for coaching/mentoring/public speaking email - amandastjohnmusic@gmail.comor follow her:Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/acreatedlife_coach Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Is Christianity the Problem or the Solution? To answer this question, I travelled to Derry/Londonderry in Northern Ireland. We put this question to people on the Streets of Derry, a city once deeply divided over Christianity. Then we talked to James Wilson, pastor of the Derry Baptist Fellowship https://derryfellowship.com/Video Version: https://youtu.be/LICgDNPtfiEAudio Version: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1635799/shareTadhg's Story: https://youtu.be/kz2Y_SUV0AgCHRISTIANITY – Problem or Solution? With Nick Park: https://youtu.be/5ZSqDa718Vs Get in touch: oriel.ogorman@gmail.com www.faithonfireireland.net 

Welcome to our latest Round Table from CCA Derry~Londonderry. We bring together artists to talk about their work and experiences. In this episode artist Bojana Janković invites Justin Kuoame and Vukašin Nedeljković to talk with her and Director of CCA Catherine Hemelryk. They discuss how they came to art, life as a migrant and navigating the various hostile environments they have encountered through the different systems operating across the UK and Ireland. You can see documentation from the exhibition Ballads of Rhinestones & Newcomers, which featured work by Bojana Janković at CCADLD.org and you can read more about the artists at the following links: Bojana Janković bojanajankovic.com | @postmoderna Justin Kuoame Interview Vukašin Nedeljković asylumarchive.com | @asylum.archive With thanks to: CCA Derry~Londonderry Art Fund Arts Council of Northern Ireland Derry City & Strabane District Council

Welcome to our latest Round Table from CCA Derry~Londonderry. We bring together artists to talk about their work and experiences. In this episode artist Tom O'Dea and Frank Sweeney talk with Pirate.ie's John Walsh about the Irish Pirate Radio Archive, cross border broadcasts and country music. You can see documentation from the exhibition Ballads of Rhinestones & Newcomers, which featured work by Frank Sweeney and Tom O'Dea at CCADLD.org and you can read more about the artists at the following links: Frank Sweeney franksweeney.art | @frankbeee Tom O'Dea iamtomodea.com John Walsh Pirate.ie | @pirate_ie With thanks to: CCA Derry~Londonderry Art Fund Arts Council of Northern Ireland Derry City & Strabane District Council

It takes a special kind of person to be keen to conduct an autopsy and this week's guest is taking that interest to a whole new level this month as she performs a live demonstration for an audience at the Northern Ireland Science Festival - albeit on an actor playing a dead body. Joining Jonathan to discuss the scientific process of what exactly is involved in a postmortem is Dr. Louisa Miller, specialist registrar in histopathology. Note: Louisa's event at the Crescent Arts Centre in Belfast on 16th February is sold out but some tickets remain for the event at The Playhouse, Derry / Londonderry on Friday 17th February.

Borderlands is an experimental attempt to create space for people from within the Christian faith tradition and those outside. It is trying to be a safe place at a time when many people are looking for spaces of gathering, belonging and a faith that speaks of doubt as well as hope, of values as well as belief. Fr Martin Magill is a parish priest in Belfast who is also the co-founder of the Four Corners Festival among many other projects. Fr Martin is a passionate activist for reconciliation in our divided society. In spite of his very public voice, he is someone who embodies the best of the priestly vocation, the capacity to express vulnerability, devotion and to value the individual in front of him. Jonny Clark interviews Fr Martin about everything from his unique interest in Belfast street names to the vocation of being a priest. Notably Jonny discussed with Fr Martin the funeral of Lyra McKee which he spoke at. Lyra was an LGBTQ+ activist and also journalist who was tragically killed by dissident Republican paramilitaries in April 2019 in the city of Derry/Londonderry. Fr Martin in his sermon, powerfully challenged our perpetually gridlocked local political leaders with words acknowledging the gestures of unity and reconciliation after her death but asking “why…in God's name…does it take the death of a 29 year old woman with her life in front of her to get to this point.” These were some of the most powerful public words we have heard in a long time in Northern Ireland. They received a standing ovation in St Anne's Cathedral and in living rooms all over the country. Fr Martin was creating a Sacred Space, which was the theme of our Belfast-based event, Borderlands that night. Borderlands meets on the second Tuesday of every month, usually in the Pavilion Bar and is described as a Brave Space for Sacred Stories.

Derry is one of the oldest continuously inhabited places in Ireland. It boasts the only remaining completely intact walled city in Ireland. The Walls were built 1613–1619 as defense for early 17th century settlers from England and Scotland. To walk the entire Wall is a distance of approximately one mile (1.5 kilometers). The Wall varies in height and width between 12 to 35 feet (3.7 to 10.7 meters). The four original gates are Bishop's Gate, Ferryquay Gate, Butcher Gate, and Shipquay Gate. The Magazine Gate, Castle Gate, and New Gate were added later making a total of seven gates. It is one of the few cities in Europe that never saw its fortifications breached. It withstood several sieges, including the famous Siege of Derry in 1689 which lasted 105 days. SUBSCRIBE to watch more videos like this one! LET'S CONNECT! -- Zia Comics website -- Zia Comics TikTok -- Zia Comics Facebook -- Zia Comics Twitter -- Zia Comics Instagram LISTEN TO OUR PODCAST! - iTunes #ziacomics #lascruces #newmexico #lascrucesnm #lascrucesnewmexico #derryuk #derry #northernireleand #londonderry #londonderryuk #londonderrynorthernireland

Helen Henderson is a Commissioner of the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission (NIHRC), combined with a long history of community education in Derry/Londonderry.We explored Helen's work on peacebuilding and non-violence. For instance, how do you build peace between communities that have been in conflict for decades? Two things: spaces to discover common humanity; and growing critical literacy.My reflection is that I've not had to worry about security. But that's a privilege others haven't had. And how important that work is, because so much else relies on feeling secure.LinksEducating the Heart programme from Children in Crossfire, aims to "nurture compassion and emotional literacy alongside critical thinking and critical literacy".Ethical and Shared Remembering at The Junction. "Ethical remembering will mean asking critical and ethical questions about violence, change, justice and peace in the context of the present and desired shared future. One hundred years on there will be no ethical remembering without remembering the future, and without an ethical and concrete commitment to building it together."Timings0:50 - Q1 What are you doing now? And how did you get there?3:23 - BONUS QUESTION. Can you give us some examples of the peace-building work you have been involved with?7:15 - BONUS QUESTION. How do you build peace between people whose families and communities have been in conflict for literally decades?15:15 - BONUS QUESTION. What does a trauma-informed approach mean?18:31 - Q2. What is the future you are trying to create, and why?21:35 - Q3. What are your priorities for the next few years, and why?24:59 - Q4. If someone was inspired to follow those priorities, what should they do next?29:30 - Q5. If your younger self was starting their career now, what advice would you give them?31:45 Q6. Who would you nominate to answer these questions, because you admire their approach?33:55 Q7. Is there anything else important you feel you have to say?Themes and quotes- The role of the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission is to hold the state to account or duty bearers to count on who they are, they uphold the human rights of people in Northern Ireland.-Future trying to create: "I am recommitting myself to peace and non violence at this time, not just because of Northern Ireland and Ireland, but what's going on the world. Feeling that sort of the simplicity and language and binary kind of stuff going on around wars is very much alive."Also, amplifying some of the hidden voices that haven't been heard. It's also time to facilitate the people with the voices that are silent, especially from the woman sector. It has been the woman have been on the ground and in the communities holding the fort. But generally, I've heard that voice in an official or political level.More hereTwitter: Powerful_TimesWebsite hub: here.Please do like and subscribe, to help others find the podcast.Thank you for listening! -- David

This week's episode is a classic! It's vintage SLY GUY.... Dave is giving off buckets for an hour about the Government, Dahmer on Netflix, people who love Autumn, rotten plumbing and muffs! Patreon: www.patreon.com/slyguypodcast See Dave at the Nerve Centre in Derry/Londonderry: https://nervecentre.org/whats-on/dave-elliott Modest Beer: www.modestbeer.co.uk

Welcome to our latest Round Table from CCA Derry~Londonderry. We bring together artists to talk about their work and experiences. In this episode 2022 DeMo Reciprocal Residency artists Mark Buckeridge and Ona Juciūtė talk with artist Hrefna Hörn Leifsdóttir and curator and Director of CCA, Catherine Hemelryk. They talk about the past, the present and the role materials play in their practices. You can see more by Mark Buckeridge and Ona Juciūtė and their solo shows at ccadld.org as well as more about the artists at the following links: Mark Buckeridge markbuckeridge.com | @mark_buckeridge | muinebheagarts.com Hrefna Hörn Leifsdóttir hrefnaleifsdottir.be | @hrefnahorn | @the_tail_brussels | @f.ct.on Ona Juciūtė Interview With thanks to: CCA Derry~Londonderry Lithuanian Culture Institute Art Fund Kaunas Artists' House Arts Council of Northern Ireland Derry City & Strabane District Council Lithuanian Council for Culture Kaunas Municipality Kaunas 2022 This podcast was made possible by Lithuanian Culture Institute, Arts Council for Northern Ireland and Art Fund.

Also, Translink trains to Helen's Bay were suspended yesterday.

Niamh Roberts Fool's Spring, 2022 Audio reading, 4 mins 45 sec Part of the Northern Ireland Mental Health Arts Festival 2022. Niamh Roberts is an artist and poet originally from our city and a recent graduate of the Slade School of Art in London. This new installation is centred around a new piece of writing entitled Fool's Spring and consists of a bicycle rack, yellow light and poem installed in CCA's Project Space and the poem is available to download in this podcast. The title of the long form poem comes from the nick name of a fake season, naming the week of warmth that comes after winter and before ‘second winter'. It is, for the artist, a false start, a brief and urgent movement between periods of stagnancy. Niamh is interested in repeating fleeting human interventions in their environment, whether seeing a person absent-mindedly moving something from one place to another, noticing a sticker stuck on the side of a wall, or screen-shotting the bike ebay ad when noticing a butterfly on the frame. Niamh writes referencing the tone of the New Narrative movement way of writing poetry, creating auto-fiction texts that sound like they could be talking about their life, but the content comes from a wide range of sources. Adopting the idea that all sources are as valid as the other, Niamh practices a way of making in which no hierarchy exists. Fool's Spring is on view in the CCA Project Space for the duration of the Northern Ireland Mental Health Festival from Monday 9–Sunday 15 May 2022. About the artist Niamh Roberts (b.1994) is originally from Derry~Londonderry. They moved to London to study at The Slade School of Fine Art, graduating in 2018. A Pisces, a poet and an artist - they went on to read in public and exhibit sculptures, now scattered across various defunked and hard to find web-links. Their current exhibitions include, catch Fast Glass, a group photography exhibition at Set New Cross, 15–16 April, Carpeted Stares, a group show in AMP Gallery 15–19 June and 07803178250/07531313883, a two person show with Lowri Heckler at Set New Cross 2–9 August. Read more about the work at: CCADLD.org/public-programmes/fools-spring And visit the artist's instagram at: @niamhroberts20 This project was supported by: CCA Derry~Londonderry Arts Council England Arts Council of Northern Ireland Derry City & Strabane District Council Northern Ireland Mental Health Festival

The gang from Derry Girls are off on a day trip and the TDG's are out of their comfort zone. What is it about the seaside destination of Portrush with to quote James, "it's Protestant, Unionist majority" that makes Marie-Louise and Jeanie feel so alienated? Memories of daytrips past and souvenirs never to be forgotten are swallowed up faster than a bag of Tayto Cheese and Onion… sorry Orla but Salt and vinegar are for savages. Look… here comes the snack trolley… Happy Days!  discovernorthernireland.com/blog/read/2020/06/take-one-of-the-worlds-great-railway-journeys-b91 Former Python - Michael Palin described the train journey between Coleraine and Derry/Londonderry as one of the most beautiful train journeys in the world. www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/michael-palins-favourite-railway-line-between-coleraine-and-derry-in-northern-ireland-set-to-re-open-following-upgrade-35227689.html Mr Benn en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr_Benn AMY HUBERMAN - the woman in the ticket office at the station www.rsvplive.ie/news/tv-film/amy-huberman-latest-star-make-26807090 twitter.com/amyhuberman?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor www.imdb.com/title/tt9066034/ PACKY LEE - The man with the wrong bag! from Peaky Blinders peaky-blinders.fandom.com/wiki/Packy_Lee MICHAEL FRY - COMEDIAN and self appointed guardian of the display KITKATS  He's very very funny - go check out his you tubes films…. twitter.com/bigdirtyfry?lang=en SINÉAD KEENAN - We didn't talk about Sinéad much in this episode but we will.. she's been in many many great programmes… inlcuding Dr Who. We have a feeling she may be back - it's just a hunch! www.imdb.com/name/nm0444681/?ref_=nm_mv_close The issue of Decommissioning as part of the Good Friday Agreement cain.ulster.ac.uk/events/peace/decommission.htm Profile - Lisa McGee BBC Radio 4 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0016phd Barrys - Portrush www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-60834776 The Chocolate Manor - Castlerock thechocolatemanor.com/ For more information about Talking Derry Girls, go to: www.thebiglight.com/talkingderrygirls

In the first of a new series, Clare is in Derry-Londonderry to meet the celebrated children's author and artist, Oliver Jeffers. As part of a free nationwide arts project called Unboxed, he's created a 10 kilometre sculpture trail, designed as a scale model of the solar system. It starts at Bay Road Park and runs alongside the River Foyle. The trail, ‘Our Place in Space', is there until 22 May 2022 before moving to Belfast, Cambridge, and the North Down Coastal Path. Oliver says he's a ‘pretty serious rambler': he walked everywhere when he lived in New York City, and once led three-day hikes in the Adirondack Mountains in upstate New York. Explaining his inspiration for the project, he says: “If we could look back at Earth from the vastness of the solar system, what would we feel? Wouldn't squabbles look stupid from Saturn? Wouldn't violence seem senseless from Venus? Forget about ‘Us' and ‘Them', from the perspective of Pluto, it's just US!” Oliver Jeffers collaborated with the Nerve Centre and Professor Stephen Smartt of Queen's University Belfast to design the trail which has its own free interactive App to download. Grid Ref for their starting point: NV 611 818 Presenter: Clare Balding Producer for BBC Audio in Bristol: Karen Gregor

Interested in watching our webinars live, or taking part in the production of our research? Join our community at: https://bit.ly/3sXPpb5 Read more here: https://bit.ly/3oBcFvp In a time where there are unprecedented societal changes, does the corporate world do enough to cater for new voices? Upcoming generations are not interested in company box ticking but want businesses to recognise and adapt to this changing world. They want to work with a company that shares their values. In this webinar, Darragh explores how investing in the next generation not only supports the financial future of a company but allows it to grow and adapt in its societal responsibilities, while nurturing tomorrow's entrepreneurial spirit. Speaker: Darragh McCarthy is the CEO and Founder of FinTrU. He started his career at Morgan Stanley in 1994 and remained there until late 2012. During his time at Morgan Stanley, Darragh was based in London, Frankfurt and New York and held various responsibilities including Global COO for Institutional Securities, COO for EMEA, Head of Fixed Income Sales North America and Head of Fixed Income Sales EMEA. In 2013, Darragh founded FinTrU recognising the increased demand from Global Investment Banks for high-quality resources to navigate the ever-increasing regulatory landscape. While managed as a profit-driven organisation, Darragh also considers FinTrU as having a social purpose to create high-quality professional employment where the company's cultures and values play an intrinsic part of everyday life. FinTrU is a multi-award winning RegTech company in the Financial Services sector, employing over 900 people across offices in Belfast, Derry/Londonderry, London, Dublin and New York. Darragh has been a Board Member of the Belfast Chamber since June 2020 and the Innovation and Growth Advisory Board for the City of London since June 2021. Darragh has a First Class Honours BComm International from University College of Dublin, Ireland. Originally from County Cork, Darragh now lives in Belfast. He is married with three children and speaks fluent German and Dutch.

Stormen Malik drog in över Sverige. 50 år sedan Bloody Sunday i Derry/Londonderry i Nordirland. Osäkert val i Portugal. Och skådespelaren, författaren och tårtmakaren Johan Ehn är dagens gäst! Magdalena Graaf visar upp sitt hem i nya teveserien "Här bor jag" - hur är det, undrar jagVår asienkorrespondent har besökt gränsen mot Myanmar där flyende burmeser skjuts till döds när de försöker ta sig över gränsfloden till ThailandOch så är det dags att räkna fåglar! Bättre en fink i trägår'n än tio mesar i skogen!Ansvarig utgivare Sabina Schatzl

Isabel Allende was born in Peru in 1942 and raised in Chile. Most famous for her novel The House of the Spirits, her works have been both bestsellers and critically acclaimed, translated into more than forty-two languages and selling more than seventy-five million copies worldwide. Her latest book, Violeta, is a fictional account of one woman's life through an extraordinary century of history. Isabel talks about her life, her special relationship with her mother and her pursuit of equality. Freya McClements reports from Derry/Londonderry where The White Handkerchief, a play marking the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, is about to open. Freya speaks to members of the production team and hears about plans for a public memorial to commemorate the dead and injured this coming Sunday. A new recording by Roderick Williams and Tamsin Dalley of Facade, an “entertainment” by Edith Sitwell and William Walton, has been released 100 years after its first performance. Dame Edith's great nephew William Sitwell and Professor Faye Hammill discuss the story behind the piece, its impact and the part it has played in the movement of Modernism. Presenter: Samira Ahmed Producer: Harry Parker Photo: Isabel Allende Credit: Lori Barra

In this week's episode, Alice interviews Roberta Bacic, a Chilean collector, curator and Human Rights advocate, about the ‘Conflict Textiles‘ collection which she oversees. In 2008, Roberta was involved as guest curator at an exhibition called ‘The Art of Survival', hosted in Derry-Londonderry. The exhibition was focused on different women's experiences of survival, and it was inspired in part by a Peruvian arpillera (a form of tapestry) which Roberta had brought to a meeting, to illustrate how women on both sides of the long-running conflict in Peru during the 1980s and 1990s represented their experiences and used the stories they had sewn as testimony at the subsequent Truth and Reconciliation Commission. From there, the idea of curating a physical and digital collection of Conflict Textiles grew – and today the collection (based at Ulster University) comprises arpilleras, quilts and wall hangings from many different parts of the world, including Chile, Northern Ireland, Croatia, Colombia, Germany, India, Zimbabwe and Syria. These works of art not only depict conflict and its consequences. In many cases, they embody the resilience of the people who created them, and they can be read as acts of resistance too: fabric forms of storytelling that advocate for justice and promote alternatives to conflict. In the podcast we discuss the origins of the arpillera tradition in Chile during the 1970s and its gradual 'diaspora' around the world as a medium of communication and protest, despite a ban on exports once Pinochet's regime began to understand the power of these 'conflict textiles'. Roberta reflects on their tactile dimension: made up of scraps of ordinary household cloth, they connect viewers to their makers and the stories they want tell in very tangible ways. Made mostly by women, they use domestic materials and techniques to make private griefs public and to amplify marginalised voices. Whether they are documenting events as they unfold or looking back on past conflicts, they play an important role in bearing witness to atrocities and in empowering victims to demand justice, both individually and collectively. Many of the Conflict Textiles we discuss either represent groups of women coming together to demonstrate against violence or are themselves the products of collaborative work. We discuss their often beautiful, seemingly cheerful aesthetics, and the ways in which they subvert visual storytelling trends to communicate the loss and suffering inflicted by conflict. They often combine storytelling with symbolism, and that gets us talking about the 'language of textiles' which transcends borders and continues to resonate across time. Among the pieces we look at are an arpillera made in 2021 by a Syrian refugee, a quilt made by WAVE trauma centre participants in Northern Ireland in 2013, and a textile stitched by an ex-combatant in Colombia who wants to 'unstitch' the idea that he is a monster and not human. These Conflict Textiles have much to teach us not just about habits and techniques of visualising war and its aftermath but also about what the process of visualisation and re-visualisation can achieve.We hope you enjoy the episode. A blog with some of the images we discuss is available here, and listeners can find many more images on the Conflict Textiles website. For a version of our podcast with close captions, please use this link. For more information about individuals and their projects, please visit the University of St Andrews Visualising War website. Music composed by Jonathan YoungSound mixing by Zofia Guertin

Welcome to the fifth of CCA Derry~Londonderry's Round Tables where we bring together artists to talk about their work and experiences. The exhibition Tilt [at Windmills] is the starting point for this conversation between artist Jarkko Räsänen with the project's curator Mirjami Schuppert and Sinéad Bhreathnach-Cashell who is both a curator at Northern Ireland Screen and member of the Turner Prize winning collective Array! They discuss archives, Teletext, collective memory and more. A full transcript will be available soon. Read more about the exhibition and view the cryptark at: CCADLD.org/exhibitions/tilt-at-windmills cryptark.net And you can find out more about the speakers at: Jarkko Räsänen - jarkko.persona.co Mirjami Schuppert - mirjamischuppert.com Sinéad Bhreathnach-Cashell - arraystudiosbelfast.com/sinead-bhreathnach-cashell.html Northern Ireland Screen - digitalfilmarchive.net With thanks to: CCA Derry~Londonderry Arts Council of Northern Ireland Derry City & Strabane District Council Art Fund

Welcome to the fourth of CCA Derry~Londonderry's Round Tables where we bring together artists to talk about their work and experiences. In conversation in this episode are artists Priya Mistry, Nithya Nagarajan and Hetain Patel. The artists discuss their practices, working across disciplines, collaborations, family, diaspora and identity. A full transcript will be available to read soon. You can read more about the artists at their websites: Priya Mistry - whatsthebigmistry.com Nithya Nagarajan - nithyanagarajan.com Hetain Patel - hetainpatel.com With thanks to: Arts Council of Northern Ireland Derry City & Strabane District Council Art Fund CCA Derry~Londonderry | CCADLD.org | @CCADLD

On this weeks episode, the guys are chatting about Connors first ever trip to Derry/Londonderry, Melissa's new car and Curtis' cancelled holiday.

Tim Mc Garry, Colin Murphy, Diona Doherty and Neil Delamere are joined by guest Paddy McDonnell at The Waterside Theatre, Derry-Londonderry. More comedy and unexpected asides about the week's news… and that's just from the audience. Fielding questions from viewers and listeners, the panel of comedians give all the wrong answers to all of the right questions!

Return of the hit comedy with regular comedians Tim McGarry, Colin Murphy, Diona Doherty and Neil Delamere poking fun at the people and events which have been making the news in Northern Ireland. Recorded at The Waterside Theatre, Derry-Londonderry, will anyone or anything be spared their caustic wit!

Derry City Centre isn't that big but there are parts of it Jeanie has never been to. The TDGs visit The Fountain which is right up next to THE WALLS and is historic for many reasons including being the last remaining Protestant housing estate in the City. Jeanie and Pauline meet up with Derry/Londonderry stalwart Jeanette Warke - who has been a youth and community worker there for almost 50 years. The TDGs also speculate why Derry Girls is filming in the seaside town of Portrush and at the institution that was Barry's amusement park, bringing back happy memories for one of the TDGs - who used to try and make 50p last a whole day there. All this and we expand your vocabulary as well! There's a also a bit of chat about chocolate and the TDG Hallowe'en ‘event' at Little Acorns Bookstore. The Fountain - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3TieFWm9CE The Bogside and the Fountain - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sVg6BeNFdc Interviews from The Fountain - https://cain.ulster.ac.uk/issues/segregat/temple/hem1.htm Jeanette's surprise on national TV - https://www.londonderrysentinel.co.uk/news/environment/fountain-project-wins-uk-prize-on-the-one-show-3243722 A bit of the story of the plays about the Fountain written by Jonathan Burgess -  https://www.ireland.anglican.org/news/4307/the-exodus-playwright-in-call Portrush - https://www.causewaycoast.holiday/locations/portrush Barry's - https://barrysamusements.com The Cathedral Youth Club - https://www.facebook.com/cathedralyouthclubfountain/ St Columb's Cathedral - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Columb%27s_Cathedral TDGs Event is at Jenni's Little Acorns - https://littleacornsbookstore.co.uk/ Chocolate heaven in Castlerock - https://thechocolatemanor.com/ We can't put the lovely boy in the photo in the notes but the picture is on our social media pages…  For more information about Talking Derry Girls, go to: www.thebighlight.com/talkingderrygirls

Giant`s Graves, Fairy Trees and Cure Wells - what are they? And how does Celtic History, Mythology and Walking Trails come together in Ireland?Today we are joined by Martin Bradley, an Ecologist who brings groups on mystical adventures through the countryside surrounding Derry~Londonderry in Northern Ireland. Adventures where every step provides you with glimpses into the mythology of local trees, flora, prehistoric monuments and the fascinating folklore of bogs, fairies, and cure wells.For more information on the trails visit: www.foyletrails.com

Join Jenny and Michael Shiels of Bark N' Beauty Spa and Grooming School in Derry/Londonderry. On this episode, the discuss how Michael became a dog groomer, what lead him to become a grooming tutor and what every student needs to know before they begin grooming.

In this episode, we will talk to Sandister Tei, the Wikimedian of the Year 2020. Rebecca gives us the reasons why Wikipedia frowns on edit-wars (or pistols at dawn). Fionnuala tries to sing Michael Fry's banger of a tune Derry/Londonderry and fails. An our wiki-hero this week is the first virtual Wikimania - taking place this week.  Logo design by Trish O'Flaherty: https://www.trishoflahertydesign.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/world_wikipedia Website: https://www.headstuff.org/the-world-according-to-wikipedia/ This show is part of the HeadStuff Podcast Network. For more, go to HeadStuffPodcasts.com, where you can also become a member of HeadStuff+ and get exclusive access to bonus material and lots more.

Sir Tom Stoppard's Olivier Award-winning play Leopoldstadt closed because of Covid in March 2020. Tomorrow it returns to the same stage and the same cast will tell again the story a Jewish family, in Vienna in the first half of the 20 century. They fled the pogroms in the East and later suffered terribly under Nazi rule. The plot has parallels with Stoppard's own family - all four of Stoppard's grandparents perished in concentration camps. He talks about returning to the theatre, if he has revised the play in the interregnum, and if he is tempted to revisit his earlier plays. We hear from the first of the five museums and galleries shortlisted for the prestigious £100,000 Art Fund Museum of the Year 2021. This year's prize will reflect the resilience and imagination of museums during the pandemic, and today we hear from Catherine Hemelryck from the Centre of Contemporary Art in Derry-Londonderry. Ryan Bancroft has just finished his first year as the Principal Conductor for BBC National Orchestra of Wales, and this week he makes two appearances at the BBC Proms. He tells us how he became a conductor, his excitement for music by Welsh composers and his favourite aspects of American music. The Scottish government has announced easing of covid restrictions just in time for this year's Edinburgh Festivals to go ahead with renewed vigour. We speak with Shona McCarthy from The Fringe about what this might mean for audiences and performers. Novelist Nick Laird talks to us about writing grief as he creates an elegy for his father Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe Producer: Oliver Jones

Producer/Host: Steve Wessler My guests were Joel Furrow the Executive Director of the Root Cellar in Portland and Lewiston Maine and Darragh Graham who directs the programming for youth in the St. Columbs House in Derry-Londonderry, Northern Ireland Discussion of the difficult issues that face the youth from both communities. The Root Cellar in Lewiston serves mostly Somali youth and some Africans from other countries. The St. Columbs Park House works primarily with Protestant and Catholic youth. Both guests discussed the role of religion in their work. This discussion focused on their own religious beliefs and how that informed their work. While they come from different religious traditions they found significant commonality about how religion informs their work. Both guests discussed the emotional difficulty of their work for staff and for themselves and how to cope with the difficult issues affecting the youth they work with youth. About the host: Steve Wessler will soon will be starting his 28th year of working on human right issues. He founded the Civil Rights Unit in the Maine Attorney’s Office in 1992 and led the Unit for 7 years. In 1999 he left the formal practice of law and founded the Center for the Prevention of Hate. The Center worked in Maine and across the USA. He and his colleagues worked to reduce bias and harassment in schools, in communities, in health care organization through workshops and conflict resolution. The Center closed in 2011 and Steve began a consulting on human rights issues. For the next 5 years much of his work was in Europe, developing and implementing training curricular for police, working in communities to reduce the risk of hate crimes, conflict resolution between police and youth. He has worked in over 20 countries. In late 2016 he began to work more in Maine, with a focus on reducing anti-immigrant bias. He continues to work in schools to reduce bias and harassment. Wessler teaches courses on human rights issues at the College of the Atlantic, the University of Maine at Augusta and at the School of Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University in northern Virginia. The post Change Agents 8/5/21 first appeared on WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives.

Mark Steel returns to Radio 4 for a fifth series of the award winning show that travels around the country, researching the history, heritage and culture of six towns that have nothing in common but their uniqueness, and does a bespoke evening of comedy in each one. As every high street slowly morphs into a replica of the next, Mark Steel's in Town celebrates the parochial, the local and the unusual. From Corby's rivalry with Kettering to the word you can't say in Portland, the show has taken in the idiosyncrasies of towns up and down the country, from Kirkwall to Penzance, from Holyhead to Bungay. This edition comes from Derry/Londonderry in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland, where the problems start with deciding which name to actually use. Mark also looks at the somewhat contentious history of the city, the impact of being the 2013 City of Culture, the local dialect, and the new bridge that's got everyone talking in this jam-packed half-hour show. (It would have been quicker, but he used the local trains.) From January 2014. Written and performed by ... Mark Steel Additional material by ... Pete Sinclair Production co-ordinator ... Trudi Stevens Producer ... Ed Morrish.

The city that sits on the River Foyle on the North side of the Irish isle in many ways has stood as a microcosm of the conflicts in Northern Ireland, even to the contestation over the name of Derry/Londonderry. In Derry City: Memory and Political Struggle in Northern Ireland (University of Notre Dame Press, 2020), Margo Shea examines the popular and cultural identity formations in this emblematic city over the century leading up to the sectarian clash known commonly as as "The Troubles." Throughout the period Shea examines, Irish nationalist communities developed a cultural memory that fostered a social identity and shared heritage as an alternative to the loyalist sanctioned commemorations, festivals, and community histories. Shea's study models a fruitful method of reading cultural history, especially of communities without recourse to political power and the usual means of archival representation. This book will be of interest for those interested in the formation of cultural identity and the development of Northern Ireland. Ryan David Shelton (@ryoldfashioned) is a social historian of British and American Protestantism and a PhD researcher at Queen's University Belfast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

4/9 A week is a long time in comedy. From the city of Derry-Londonderry, American comedian Des Bishop joins regular jokesters Neil Delamere, Jake O' Kane, Colin Murphy and Tim McGarry to poke fun at the people and events which have been making the news at home and across the planet over the past week. A Moondog Production for BBC Radio Ulster

Over 855 delegates from 57 countries convened in Derry/Londonderry to share the science, stories and strategy of suicide prevention and suicide grief/trauma support. The theme of the conference was "Breaking Down Walls, Building Bridges" and the conference planners were exceptionally mindful about equity in their selection of speakers and content. The voices of people with lived experience were prevalent throughout and one of my favorite sessions was among prominent suicidologists and clinicians who shared their experiences with discrimination and prejudice within the field of suicide prevention. We also had an opportunity to honor the lives and service of two giants in our field who died way too soon -- Prof Allison Milner and Dr. Jan Mokkenstorm. Tune in to be inspired to be part of this international community pulling together to prevent suicide and alleviate suffering. For more information go to https://www.sallyspencerthomas.com/hope-illuminated-podcast

As the highly anticipated live action remake of Beauty and the Beast is released, the director Bill Condon talks about working with Emma Watson and Dan Stevens, gay references in the film, and how this version of the beast is based on Mr Darcy. Comedian Dave Spikey is best known for co-writing Phoenix Nights with fellow Lancastrian Peter Kaye. As he begins his 30th anniversary UK tour, Juggling on a Motorbike, he explains the process behind planning a new set of shows, why he avoids ridicule and crudity in his comedy, and divulges a rather unusual lucky mascot!A Big Bang Theory prequel has just been announced. Young Sheldon will follow a 9-year-old version of the socially awkward genius as he grows up in east Texas. Big Little Lies actor Iain Armitage will star as the young version of Jim Parsons' Sheldon Cooper. So what chance success?The great Irish tenor Josef Locke was born 100 years ago in Derry-Londonderry. Nuala McAllister Hart, author of a new biography, explains his lasting appeal and talks about the events celebrating Locke's centenary across Northern Ireland.Presenter: Samira Ahmed Producer: Angie Nehring.

In the second of 2 programmes from Derry Londonderry Radio 3's Matthew Sweet examines the work and legacy of director Michael Grigsby, who died earlier this year, and who made a trilogy of films in Ulster. In the first two, Too Long A Sacrifice and The Silent War, he invited people to talk about how The Troubles had impacted on their lives. Matthew Sweet is joined by two film-makers who worked closely with Michael Grigsby, Rebekah Tolley and John Furse, to pay tribute to his work. This event was recorded at the Playhouse Theatre in Derry-Londonderry, this year's UK City of Culture.

BBC Radio 3's annual Free Thinking festival of ideas continues its summer of activity around the country. In the first of 2 programmes from Derry-Londonderry Matthew Sweet celebrates the city's status as City of Culture 2013 and explores its cultural past and present with a series of discussions, events and interviews recorded at The Playhouse. Writer Owen Hatherley, Derry-based architect Mary Kerrigan and local crime writer Brian McGilloway reflect on the architecture and landscape of Derry and the lives of its citizens.